Song # 1

[omimouse]

I don't know how everyone else was doing this, but I'm going to hand out one song a day. Song title, singer/band, and complete lyrics. Song #1 is:


The Sounds of Silence
Simon and Garfunkel

Hello darkness my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobble stone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash
Of a neon light that split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people maybe more
People talking without speaking
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dare disturb the sound of silence

Fools said I, you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the signs said
The words of prophets are written
On the sub-way walls and tenement halls
And whisper'd in the sound of silence

Comments

[pagawne.livejournal.com]

One of my old favorites.

[dour.livejournal.com]

An old favorite of mine too, and one that I've performed on numerous occasions, although... not since high school, I think. Damn, now you've got me humming at work. :)

[louisadkins.livejournal.com]

A lovely song, dear.